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President Wilshire
You’re welcome. Alderman Cleaver.
Alderman Cleaver

Thank you Madam President. | would like to say a good word for our City employees now that COVID is being
mitigated and opening back up, City Hall is open and so on and so forth. | would like to thank all the City Hall
workers, all the City employees generally for all the great work they’ve done through COVID through all the
heartaches and difficulties that created. They have done a fantastic job. Well before | got into government either
State or local, | recognized that our City Hall was outstanding, our present Mayor was Mayor before and always
presented a very good administration. They do a fantastic job and each one is to be congratulated. They are
under appreciated as many government employees are, but | would like to thank them both for myself and for the
Board for all the work they’ve done. Thank you.

President Wilshire
You’re welcome. Alderman Jette?
Alderman Jette

Thank you Madam President. | wanted to commend you and Alderman Caron for scheduling the public hearing
on the issue of the Referendum Question about the Police Commissioners. Lots of times we have Public
Hearings and then we have a Committee Hearing immediately thereafter. And I’ve always felt that it didn’t really
give a chance for us to really digest what the public had to say during the Public Hearing before we were called
upon to vote on it in Committee. This time, the Public Hearing was scheduled and many people appeared and
expressed their opinion; | found it very informative on both sides of the issue. And now it is going to go, not that
same night, but sometime in the coming weeks the Personnel & Administrative Affairs Committee Chaired by
Alderman Caron is going to consider it and make a recommendation. And then, at some point after that, the Full
Board would vote on it. | appreciate that because it gives us a chance to have a full discussion, a full debate.
And | want to remind people that what is before us, this Resolution is not to change anything at this point. The
Resolution is to put on the ballot the question about whether or not the voters think that the way that we select
the Police Commissioners should be changed.

| don’t know how | am going to vote on this but if it does pass, all it does is it puts it on the ballot and then a full
debate will occur and then the voters will decide whether any change is warranted or not. And | think that a lot of
people are under the mistaken impression that this Resolution is affecting that change right away. It would just
put it on the ballot and allow the voters to decide. There are people who are against it and want it to stay the
same and feel that there should be no question and it shouldn’t even be on the ballot. But | just wanted to clarify
and | wanted to thank you Madam President and Alderman Caron for arranging for this debate to occur over
several meetings. And thank you.

Alderman Clemons

Thank you Madam President. | wanted to give my condolences to the Davidson family tonight. Don Davidson
was Mayor in the 90’s when | was a teenager in Nashua. He actually inspired me to get involved in City Politics,
but not in the way you might think. | was actually very against Mayor Davidson and some of the things that he
proposed in his first two years in office and some of the crazy things he did. But | learned a lesson from Mayor
Davidson and that is that people can change and people can, if you listen to your constituents, you can govern
better because Mayor Davidson in the second two years of his term was a fine Mayor, a very good Mayor,
somebody that | agreed with. Somebody who worked with the people of Nashua and worked with the Legislature
and other folks in the State to try to make Nashua a better place and, in fact, we were named the Number 1 City
in the Country for a second time under Mayor Davidson.

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When he was recalled | supported him in the recall and | supported him in his reelection campaign which he did
not ultimately win in 1999. But | think his legacy here in the City you can see it everywhere, whether you are
traveling down Kinsley Street or West Hollis Street, he changed those streets to one-ways, those are major
thoroughfares in the City. Now when you go down to the Maplewood Area we often call that Captain’s Corner
which was named after his convenience store which was there. Mayor Davidson will always hold a place in
Nashua, he served the public very well and his family should be proud. And | was proud to be a supporter of his,
to come around to be a supporter of his. So thank you very much.

Alderwoman Lu

Thank you Madam President. | would like to address just some concerns about unsealing minutes. There have
been a lot of requests by Nashua residents for sealed minutes to be unsealed when appropriate. | have heard a
great deal of concern particularly regarding the Assessing Department minutes. And it doesn’t seem that they
are being unsealed with qualifying reasons cited for sealing them no longer apply. And residents are asking for
them to be unsealed. | understand that we seal minutes because they involve discussion of settlement proposals
and it is an excellent reason to seal minutes. But it would seem to be that once the settlement is made, unless
there are qualifying reasons that remain that we would unseal these minutes as a matter of course.

| understand the rationale for not unsealing the minutes in the Assessing Department that the settlements that
are under discussion become publicly available. But | don’t agree that this is the same as unsealing the
contemporaneous minutes of the meeting. | feel that true transparency would involve unsealing the records when
the reason for sealing no longer exists to allow the public a view of how decisions are made by our officials. To
the Chairmen of the Committees | am requesting that the use of a non-public session be viewed as a temporary
means to keep sensitive information quiet while it can damage reputations or to keep negotiations effective. But
in the interest of some people who are asking and for the rights of all of the City of Nashua residents, that those
rights and interests be keep in mind when weighing how much priority is given to unsealing the minutes in a
timely manner. Thank you.

President Wilshire

You're welcome. Alderman Lopez, you’re up.

Alderman Lopez

| wanted to start by expressing my condolences to Melbourne Moran, State Representative on the passing of his
father; recently his father passed way due to COVID-19. So | wanted to express my condolences to him and his
family and those who knew his father. | wanted to extend my condolences to the family and friends of the
recently deceased Mayor Davidson. And then | also wanted to comment on the spending cap issue too. Those
State issues and those bipartisan back and forths are why | dislike the intrusion of partisan politics into local
issues. As local Aldermen, we represent our Wards just our Wards and our fidelity needs to be to the people we
are elected to serve. And | feel like bipartisan politics can definitely take the focus off of the issue and have
people start playing larger games that removes the public from the decision making. And | think for the entire
Nashua Delegation to vote against something that would impact Nashua but for a larger than them group to vote
in favor of something that impacts Nashua on party lines is detestable. It definitely gives me pause when we
consider things like the appointment of Police Commissioners, because while we certainly have good
Commissioners at this point, | don’t want to see the day come where the Police Department is weaponized
against us for political purposes.

| was in a discussion today where someone accused Mayor Craig of dislocating a group of homeless people
because she was running for office. That’s not the case. There’s accountability and there is change. But if it
were a circumstance like that had happened in Nashua, | would want our constituents to be able to take action.
So | personally am very closely, | am very conflicted over the actual decision over whether we should change the
Police Commission or not but it is becoming more and more clear to me that it will be a political issue unless we
make it a referendum. | have been outreached by a lot of people who are opposed to it who do not live in Ward 4,
a number of whom do not even live in Nashua and they are expressing their opposition while asking me not to

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politicize it. | feel like it has been politicized when somebody who does not live in the area and is not directly
engaged in that situation or when their experience with the Police are much more visceral and profound than
going to their administrative office and being impressed with their ability to provide Right-to-Know. That’s not the
experience of a lot of local Ward 4 resident’s experience with the Police. That’s not a lot of the work going on
here. Police are seen sometimes as the first contact is when a Police Officer might arrest a family member and
we have a lot of programs in place in the community to create a positive experience like the Nashua PAL
Program, like the NERD Program — Nashua Economic Racial Disparity.

The Police work very hard to manage their impact in the community in a positive way in Ward 4. That’s
recognized, that is not political. That is a consequence of being in a community and doing community policing.
So | think there’s an assumption here, possibly a political one that if those goes to Nashua constituents they will
be uninformed, they will be ignorant, they won’t come up with the right decision and | think that’s when people
start to use politics. That’s when people who are not in a specific area or directly impacted by something seen as
part of a larger strategic goal. | caution against that kind of thinking. Like | said, there’s still a lot more discussion
to be had on even the Ordinance that we have right now which would put it in referendum. But! am starting to
think that this is not a decision that Concord should be making because if Concord is going to make decisions
about our spending cap in this particular manner, that’s not doing it for the right reasons.

| will also point out that this is my 3" term as Alderman, no one has ever approached me about repairing the
spending cap. We are authorized as Aldermen to at least propose an Ordinance or the amendments to those
Ordinances that would do that and no one has brought it up. No one has even asked for it to be put on the table
for discussion. So there was never even a discussion here or the debate or any of that kind of thing which robs
Nashua constituents and residents of that opportunity. Because they saw no public hearing, no public comment,
no in-Nashua or Nashua managed conversations. They, at best, would have had to be following all of the State
exercises that happen and they, at best, would have had their voices divided 400 times by the other State
Representatives, which is unfortunate. | think election season is coming up for many of us; | hope we are able to
keep things focused on local issues and not partisanship and not larger political parties.

On to a more positive note, we were talking about different past Mayors. The mural in Le Parc de Notre
Renaissance Francaise is underway, it is being painted. One of the faces that the Richelieu Club nominated to be
put on as a person of Franco-Nashuan descent who has contributed to the community is Mayor Lozeau. So |
hope people will stop, take a look at that, if they are interested in supporting or sponsoring project it can be found
by going to www. involvedtoimpact.org. And if you are interested in participating in the Tree Streets Block Party,
that is going to be on June 26 on Ash Street as well. Some of the Aldermen might recognize the address as
containing the house that we are looking at supporting Neighborworks revitalizing. So there are a lot of positive
things that are going on. If anyone is interested in sponsoring any of the events at the Block Party or getting
involved in the more local issues that affect people in the Tree Streets, then feel free to come by. You are all
welcome. So that’s June 26" and if you want more information you can find it at www.involvedtoimpact.org.
Thank you.

President Wilshire

You’re welcome. | too would like to send my condolences to the family of Don Davidson. Enough has been said
this evening. He was a good Mayor, he was a good person so my condolences to his family.

Committee announcements:

Alderman Dowd

Yes, we have two more Budget Meetings this week; Wednesday and Thursday at 7:00. They are going to be
conducted here in the Chamber but the public can access via Zoom. We are still under the Governor’s order.
On Wednesday it is going to be Community Development and on Thursday it is going to be Education; two
very serious budget areas so | hope that everybody will participate.

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ADJOURNMENT

MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN THAT THE JUNE 8, 2021, MEETING OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
BE ADJOURNED, BY ROLL CALL

A viva voce roll call was taken to adjourn the Board of Aldermen meeting which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman O’Brien, Alderman Klee, Alderman Dowd,

Alderman Caron, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Lopez, Alderman Tencza,

Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Jette, Alderman Schmidt, Alderman Laws,

Alderman Cleaver, Alderwoman Harriott-Gathright, Alderman Wilshire 14
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED

The meeting was declared adjourned at 9:23 p.m.

Attest: Susan K. Lovering, City Clerk

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JUNE 8, 2021

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ROLL CALL

PRESENTATION

Emergency Operations Plan

ADJOURNMENT

2021 Emergency
Operations Plan Update

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